I made bread again. In these unprecedented times bread is the only thing that brings me joy, and it seems to be the only thing I can get right.
I tried a new recipe which called for more ingredients-eggs, milk and a dash of apple cider vinegar.
I prepared the dough and kneaded it for as short as possible. One recipe said to knead for 50 minutes and I shuddered and closed the tab as quickly as possible. I left it to rise and checked on it an hour in and was happy to see that it had risen quite a bit. I decided to leave it for another hour more and it rose! The dough more than tripled and was high enough for the “punchdown” (this is a real bread-making terminology).
This rise made me so happy!
Sexiest dough ever. It felt so good.
Unlike my usual bread recipe, this called for the dough to be proofed twice. I was nervous at first because I did not know if fast action dried yeast was suitable for double proofing but it worked!
I love yeast!
I separated the two pieces of dough into two containers as I didn’t want one gigantic loaf
Eh voila!
So beautiful.
So good I had to post it twice
My precious
I was so chuffed with my bread that I decided to make some french toast for the very first time. I got together all my ingredients and got to work.
Mixed it all up…
And fried it in butter!
I did not have any maple syrup which would have made it more photogenic/delicious but it tasted good. Mostly I was just so pleased to have made some French toast with bread that I baked. After a series of baking mishaps, it felt good to finally get something right.
A bientot!
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